Destruction in Kobe (2025)

Destruction in Kobe
Promotional poster featuring Hiroshi Tanahashi
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	September 28, 2025
City	Kobe, Japan
Venue	Kobe World Memorial Hall
Attendance	4,674 [1]
Event chronology
← Previous Forbidden Door Next → Historic X-Over in Guangzhou
Destruction chronology
← Previous Kobe (2024) Next → —

Destruction in Kobe (2025) was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) that place at Kobe World Memorial Hall in Kobe, Japan on September 28, 2025. It was the twenty-seventh event in the Destruction chronology.

Production

Storylines

Destruction in Kobe will feature professional wrestling matches that will involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. ^[2]

Taiji Ishimori is scheduled to challenge Hiromu Takahashi for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. ^[3] The winner of this match will face Eita on October 11. ^[4]

Results

No.	Results [5]	Stipulations	Times [6]
1	Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura, Yoshi-Hashi, El Desperado and Yoh defeated House of Torture (Evil, Sanada, Dick Togo, Douki and Sho) by pinfall	Ten-man tag team match [7]	7:35
2	Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Great-O-Khan by pinfall	Singles match [8]	7:45
3	Boltin Oleg (c) defeated Don Fale (with Evil and Dick Togo) by pinfall	Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship [7]	6:05
4	Knock Out Brothers (Oskar and Yuto-Ice) defeated Taichi and Tomohiro Ishii (c) by pinfall	Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship [8]	13:30
5	Hiromu Takahashi (c) defeated Taiji Ishimori by pinfall	Singles match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship [3]	11:28
6	Yota Tsuji defeated David Finlay (with Gedo) by pinfall	Singles match [8]	14:37
7	Gabe Kidd (c) defeated Shingo Takagi by pinfall	Singles match for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship [8]	21:40
8	Zack Sabre Jr. (c) defeated Ren Narita by pinfall	Singles match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship [9]	29:23
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

1. Kreikenbohm, Philip (September 28, 2025). "NJPW Destruction In Kobe 2025". cagematch.net. Retrieved September 28, 2025.
2. Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
3. Currier, Joseph (September 25, 2025). "NOAH title to be defended at NJPW Destruction in Kobe". Wrestling Observer Newsletter .
4. "[October 11th Ryogoku Kokugikan Tournament] Notice of changes to some match cards and additional match cards". Pro Wrestling Noah . September 25, 2025.
5. Michaels, Corey (September 27, 2025). "NJPW Destruction in Kobe live results: Sabre vs. Narita IWGP title match". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online . Retrieved September 28, 2025.
6. Vetter, Chris (September 28, 2025). "NJPW "Destruction in Kobe" results (9/24): Vetter's review of Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ren Narita for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, Gabe Kidd vs. Shingo Takagi for the IWGP Global Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved September 29, 2025.
7. "Destruction In Kobe 2025". New Japan Pro-Wrestling . September 2, 2025.
8. Carey, Ian (September 2, 2025). "NJPW announces matches for Destruction in Kobe, other September shows". Wrestling Observer Newsletter .
9. Lambert, Jeremy (September 2, 2025). "Zack Sabre Jr To Defend IWGP World Heavyweight Title Against Ren Narita At NJPW Destruction In Kobe". Fightful.